Re: null termination of keys

["Robert D. Russell" <rdr@io.iol.unh.edu>]

Julian:

Draft 12-96, section 4.1 defines an LTDS and then says:

"Every key=value pair, excluding the last or only pair in a LTDS,
MUST be followed by one null (0x00) delimiter; the last or only pair
in a LTDS ends at the LTDS end."

This brings us back to where we were in draft 6 -- that key=value pairs
are separated by nulls, not terminated by nulls.  If I remember
correctly, one of the primary reasons that this was changed going to draft
7 is that implementations prefer to treat each key=value pair as one string,
and in C and C++, strings are null terminated.

I do not believe this change is in any way necessary for the LTDS or
C-bit mechanism, and would request that it be put back to the way it has
been from draft 7 through draft 12-94:

"Every key=value pair, including the last or only pair in a LTDS,
MUST be followed by one null (0x00) delimiter."

Thanks

Bob Russell